- Now this is a face for radio.
I have always been fascinated by broadcasting and, in particular, radio. It always amazed me that, on the few occasions I got away with it, I would sit in a room surrounded by all kinds of electronic toys and all I had to do to talk with 150,000 people all at the same time was flip a microphone switch. (Mostly I was an engineer and news writer. An odd combination, but it worked for me.)
I am also a fan of radio history and, in particular, Seattle radio history because I worked with or around some of the great Seattle personalities (Dick Stokke, Al Cummings, Jerry Holzinger and the incredibly strange Robert O. Smith.)
Of all of them the most entertaining was Robert O., who would do the midnight news on KVI. In three minutes he would become over a dozen characters and imitate several more, all in rapid succession – and all BEFORE he was actually awake!
One of the best history of radio sites I’ve found on the Internet belongs to Jason Remington. He somehow finds an amazing array of historical goodies and shares them sometimes two and three times a day at SeaTacRadio.com.
Another fascinating site belongs to Norm Gregory, a long-time Seattle radio personality who worked at KJR, KOMO, and KZOK. His site, which is his personal scrapbook, shares his air checks as well as some of the newspaper articles and company memos that defined is thirty-year career in Seattle radio.
For those who love radio – especially when it was an important part of our lives – and broadcasting history, I recommend you stop by these sites and discover some the dynamic personalities that made Seattle radio one of the most dynamic Puget Sound experiences.
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